Emotion vs Intellect - What's the difference?
emotion | intellect |
A person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data.
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, title= A reaction by an non-human organism with behavioral and physiological elements similar to a person's response.
the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)
the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
a person who has that faculty to a great degree
As nouns the difference between emotion and intellect
is that emotion is a person's internal state of being and involuntary physiological response to an object or a situation, based on or tied to physical state and sensory data while intellect is the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)emotion
English
Noun
(wikipedia emotion) (en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
Derived terms
* emotionable * emotionalintellect
English
Noun
- Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.
- They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect .
- Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.